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Week of
PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE: EDITORIAL Our world is clearly missing something, in fact much, in its efforts to achieve peace. And one of them is expressed by the word "spirituality", about as overused as the word "peace" precisely because they both embody so many of our dreams. http://www.transcend.org/tms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=464&Itemid=27 ******* A RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE FOR PEACE IN THE CAUCASUSInterview with Alexey Kumshatskiy By Kimberlye Kowalczyk TMS Peace Journalist http://www.transcend.org/tms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=463&Itemid=27 *******
A N A L Y S I S : AMERICANS PLAY MONOPOLY, RUSSIANS CHESS ******* THE US MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM - THE MAGIC PUDDING THAT WILL NEVER RUN OUT ******* MISSILE DEFENSE: UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUESBy Randal Mark George Monbiot has a piece in the Guardian this week ("The US missile defense system is the magic pudding that will never run out") explaining the financial motivations behind the US policy of promoting missile defense systems. His observations are fine, so far as they go, although they are limited by his own prejudices. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/randalmark.php?articleid=13340 *******
S P O T L I G H T :
******* GEORGIA ON MY MIND: FROM WEST POINT TO THE CAUCASUS ******* MANUFACTURED REVOLUTIONS? ******* HOW TO BURN THE SPECULATORSBy James K. Galbraith Mother Jones Whenever economies sour, politicians blame speculators. But on occasion, they are right to do so. Speculators did wreak havoc in 1630s Holland, 1720s France, and in the American stock market in 1929. That crash led to the Great Depression and 60 years of tight controls on speculation. Now, thanks to our 30-year infatuation with free markets, the controls are off, and the mad gamblers are at it again. Yesterday's burst bubble was housing; today's expanding ones are energy and food. True, we have major long-term energy problems that cannot be laid at the feet of speculators.... But do supply and demand explain oil prices at $140 per barrel, with voices from Goldman Sachs projecting $200 for next year (a figure that would push gas prices above $5 per gallon) and Russia's Gazprom saying $250, despite a likely US recession? Do they explain the historic price hikes in rice, corn, and wheat, leading to hunger in the developing world? Do they explain the absolutely stratospheric price of copper? No they do not. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/09/exit-strategy-how-to-burn-the-speculators.html *******
N E W S : THE AMERICAN SCHOOL WHERE TEACHERS CARRY A PEN, A RULER AND... A GUN ******* PARAGUAY: FORMER SLAVE GETS CABINET POSITION ******* PERU REPEALS TRIBAL LAND LAWS ******* BRAZIL: SETTING AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT FOR INDIGENOUS LANDS *******
C A U C A S U S C O N F L I C T : THE SAAKASHVILI EXPERIMENT ******* THE NEW COLD WAR TURNS HOT ******* RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN CONFLICT: LIES, TRUTH AND THE NEW COLD WAR ******* U.S. WATCHED AS A SQUABBLE TURNED INTO A SHOWDOWN *******
I N T E R V I E W : THE U.S. PURSUIT OF GLOBAL DOMINANCEAn Interview with John Bellamy Foster Monthly Review Imperialism is inherent to capitalism and only varies in form and intensity. What is new in the post-9/11 period is the fact that U.S. empire and U.S. imperialism is more nakedly promoted than at any time since the Spanish-American War at the very end of the nineteenth century. http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/foster171106.html *******
I N F O C U S: YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS: ******* THE GEORGIA CONSPIRACY *******
CURRENT COMMENTARIES: WHY NOT SIMPLY ABOLISH NATO? ******* NUCLEAR CHICKEN IN POLAND - PUTIN CAN'T AFFORD TO BACK DOWN ******* TWILIGHT ZONE - 'TOSSED OUT LIKE A DOG' ******* HARSH WORDS: BUT TRUE ******* LAND AND FREEDOM ******* PRINCE CHARLES WARNS GM CROPS RISK CAUSING THE BIGGEST-EVER ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER ******* A REVOLUTION IN THE BOARDROOM: WHY IT PAYS TO BE GAYHomosexuals Are Being Courted by Employers – from Spooks to the City By Jerome Taylor The Independent UK When Angela Mason began her 10-year directorship of the Stonewall gay lobby group in 1992, she had a friend in the corporate world who had two phones in his house. One he used to take personal calls for him and his partner. The other was for the office. When it came to being out and proud in the workplace, few and far between was the employee who would happily step out of the closet and declare: "I'm gay, let's do business." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-revolution-in-the-boardroom-why-it-pays-to-be-gay-901851.html *******
V I D E O S : REMEMBERING MAHMOUD DARWISH ******* THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE ******* SHOCK DOCTRINE OPENS WAY FOR OIL DRILLING ******* FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE ******* U.S. MISSILE DEAL ENRAGES RUSSIA ******* RUSSIAN GENERAL THREATENS POLAND OVER MISSILE DEAL ******* RUSSIANS CHECKMATE U.S. IN GEORGIA ******* INSIDE IRAQ - AMERICAN MASTER PLAN *******
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